28 dic 1885 anni - Birth Of INC 1885-Dec

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On 28 December 1885, the first session of the Indian National Congress (INC) was held at Bombay and continued till 31 December. It was started by a retired British civil servant AO Hume along with Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha

The president of the first session was W. C. Bonnerjee.

In its early years, the INC was a moderate organisation and limited its means to constitutional methods and dialogue. Its demands were limited to including more Indians in the civil service and the armed forces. It never talked of independence.

By 1905(partition of Bengal), there was a clear rift in the party which was now divided between old moderates and the newer group, the extremists – who were so called because of their radical methodologies. The extremist faction was led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The party split openly in the Surat session in 1907.

The congress truly became a mass party with the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi, who returned from South Africa in 1915. Gandhi introduced methods like satyagraha and civil disobedience to the independence struggle.

Starting with home rule, by 1929, the demand for poorna swaraj was being made.

After the Government of India Act 1935 was passed, provincial elections were held in 1936-37 and out of the 11 provinces, the Congress formed the government in 8 of them except Sindh, Punjab and Bengal.

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